Description: This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron and her daughter Crystal, artist Wallace Berman and his wife Shirley, and Beat poet and surrealist Bob Kaufman.

Source: 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm (original reversal)

Collection: Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection

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Digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

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